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UNSOUND AND DISEASED FOOD.
the close of the year. The businesses carried on at the premises where the milk is sold are
indicated below:—
Dairies : milk, eggs and butter only 80
„ wholesale dep6ts 4
Grocers' shops 10
General shops, selling oil 43
„ not „ 11
Sweet-stuff and confectionery 10
Provisions 1
Off-licensed premises 2
Refreshment 10
Bakers' shops 4
Private house 1
The above premises were inspected on 293 occasions during the year. Three cases of
scarlet fever and two of diphtheria were reported on premises where milk was sold; and 1
case of scarlet fever in a milk carrier, and 2 cases of scarlet fever and 5 of diphtheria in the
families of milk carriers. All due precautions were taken to prevent the spread of infection,
and no ill results were traced to any of the above cases.
Ice-cream Making.
A special Register of the makers and vendors of this commodity is kept for the purpose
of enforcing the provisions of Part VIII. of the London County Council (General Powers) Act,
1902. Four names were removed from the Register during the year, there being 136
effective entries at the end of the year. Of the makers and vendors on the Register,
132 are shop-keepers, and 4 Italian barrow-men. The businesses combined with the sale
of ice-cream are indicated below:—
Sweet shops 64 Newspapers and Tobacco 3
Bakers 24 Confectioners 5
Milk 6 Cook 1
Restaurants 17 General 12
In addition to the 4 local barrow-men, 14 from other districts have regular stands in the
Borough:
From Marylebone 6 From Islington 1
„ Kensington 5 Willesden 2
One case of scarlet fever occurred on an ice-cream shop premises.
UNSOUND AND DISEASED FOOD.
In addition to the meat condemned and destroyed in the course of slaughter, 7,185 lbs.
of foodstuffs were destroyed as unfit for human food, including 4,480 lbs. destroyed on
requisition of the G.W.R. Co., while in course of transit. The various quantity of foods, and
the causes of condemnation are set out below :—
Meat (Butchers' Shops):—
Cause of Destruction. Animal. Part Destroyed.
pig 1 Carcase.
Tuberculosis 1 Pluck, 1 Mesentery.
Bullock 9½ Lungs, 1 Tongue.
Bullock 1 Lungs (set), 1 Liver.
Parasites Sheep 1 Liver.